September 17, 2014: Two really good meteorites from Morocco on display at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Casablanca, Morocco

On the left are two pieces of the most recent lunar meteorite to be recognized, Oued Awlitis 001. There's a good story to go with the finding of this meteorite; read it here. The meteorite on the right is Tissint, a martian meteorite that fell in Morocco in 2011. Photo by Randy Korotev Full Page

September 3, 2014: Andromeda cirque glacier, Mount Andromeda, Alberta, in the Canadian Rockies. Photograph from the Athabasca glacier, August 13, 2014.

Click here for a May 7, 2014 view. These glaciers have been shrinking since the Little Ice Age. The Athabasca glacier has been receding on average ~12 meters per year since the late 1800s and the pace has accelerated in recent years. Also, see this PDF.Athabasca glacier is fed by the Columbia Icefield, representing one of the largest sources of fresh water in North America. Photo by Brad Jolliff.Full Page

August 27, 2014: Onaping Formation - Here's a good story...

Photomicrographs of two petrographic thin sections of the Onaping Formation, a 1400-m-thick deposit of impact ejecta emplaced 1.85 billion years ago when an iron meteorite struck southern Ontario to form what is now known as the Sudbury Impact Complex. The thin section on the left was prepared from a rock collected at the Sudbury site by E&PS Research Scientist, Axel Wittmann. The one on the right was collected by Prof. Nigel Brush, a geologist at Ashland University in northern Ohio. He found the distinctive rock among many other glacial cobbles in a stream bed in Ashland Co, OH. The rock was transported to Ohio from the Sudbury area, 400 miles to the north, by the southern Laurentide Ice Sheet and melt-water runoff associated with the glacier, probably less than 100,000 years ago. To find out how thin sections of these two rocks came together at Washington University, read more: The Columbus Dispatch.Full Page